One of the Most Dangerous Places To Be a Woman
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Every year, hundreds of women in El Salvador are being murdered just because they’re women. We explore the culture of machismo and gang violence to find out why.
This episode of Woman first aired on VICE TV in 2016.
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Hiding her face but showing the baby was pointless. Praying for her safety.
Exactly 💯, even the blurry part ain't working if you know someone u can easily tell who she is, I don't understand journalism why they don't understand how dangerous it is to play with someone life!!
@@lindarakobe6527 Nah, they know exactly how dangerous it is, they just don't care. Truly, they don't. They're not pretending to blur the woman for her sake, that's just a fraud they perpetuate to make themselves sound more exciting yet more legit. They wouldn't be the first sensational "journalists" of this type to take bets on how long she lasts, so then they can put out another salacious video about her demise, and how clever they are to get to show it to you..
The video is from 2016, it portrays the gang culture, THIS is why se sent 75,000 gangsters to prison. These people are no longer in danger.
Came to the comments just to say, if I knew this person, I would probably be able to tell who she was. They barely blurred her face…and her body wasn’t blurred at all. I hope she’s safe!
@@ColonizersBlow clips from 2016...
I really can't stress this enough. Yall really gotta do a better job hiding these wemen identities. It's crazy to hear what people will do to these wemen and yall put basic filters on them that literally anybody who knows them irl can tell in .2 seconds. Bro yall put that woman's whole ahs child's FACE in this video
This this this!!!
It’s not wemen, it is spelled W-o-m-e-n.
@@diva80you completely missed the entire point of the post because of one letter. Everyone knew they meant "women", even you. Get out of here grammar police, there are obviously much more significant things to focus your energy on. The women, their identity, and the identity of their children MUST be protected
Out of everything written u decided to reply because of one letter. @@diva80
and this is even remotely important and relevant to this crucial point how? 🙄
That reporter has balls of steel
Came to comment the same thing! Absolute, lady-balls of steel 🦾
Their non existant she has something better , a uterus
*Ovaries of steel
Facts
@@Alexis_005 .
That man said it’s fun to harm women?!? “It’s like creativity”?!? Excuse?!?😳
I felt sick when I heard him say that..😲
Idk if it’s social pressure or straight psychopathy 💀
@@askerton08 It could be both, but more psychopath, like a lot more!
@@juliesmyth3044 It just hurt me because imagine the woman living with that monster?!!💔
keep them out of our country.
Her face when that man was describing how he would beat his 15 year old girlfriend.
That had me messed up. She needs extreme intervention because her definition of love keeps getting worsened by that steaming pile of garbage
Her face was the same face I made. Just, sheer incredulity mixed with horror. There are no words.
@@Rhov9 disgusting.
The vast majority of homicide victims in El Salvador and Latin America are men, not woman, but sure, let’s keep pretending women are the main victims and h*aped even tho there is no evidence that the majority of the perpetrators stated, “I k*illed this woman just bc she’s a woman” or any intent that is due to misogyny. Vice is a left wing propaganda to always find a way to make women look like the main victims
They are brutish beasts. I can't imagine living in a society where there is so much accepted brutality against women.
It's like some men really hate women. Despicable really. Unacceptable in every way. Damn shame. RIP to all the innocent that have passed. Peace be with you.
Unfortunately, Men who think and act in this way, do nothing but set themselves up for a one gender society. Hatred causes destruction. It's already happening in many Islam countries. The male population is much higher than the female population. If men are happy with creating one gender societies, then happiness is key, but will be met with regret later on.
BLAME THEIR MOTHERS!
Game Over Girls 😂
@potato6436 Men have been telling women that it’s “game over”. And yet women are still Here .. on the planet… living. Clown
@@MY-zx6lzFathers, for not teaching how to respect women.
omg that lady identifying her loved one tore my heart
This video is from 2016, yes, it was horrible, this is why we hate gangsters from MS-13 and 18-Street so much, fortunately after sending 75,000 gangsters to prison last year our country is finally safe for everyone. Nobody should ask us Salvadorans to give those fk gangsters a good treatment in prison after everything they've done to us.
@@joycem6250 glad to hear you are now in a more safe environment much blessings
my grandmother sent my mother off to the states in the 70s due to the extreme violence in El Salvador. And I'm so incredibly grateful she did. My mother received citizenship, graduated from Hs and college. her life would have been so much different had she stayed.
God bless your Mom and your family. Women have to stick together.
Then she raised a son who is just like the men from home. Lovely.
@VoltairesRevenge You are so stupid and uneducated. She raised her son with love not hatred like what's inside of your lost soul.
@@VoltairesRevengethen yo momma raised a daughter like you😂
A huge sacrifice that had to be made for the better of her life and you
Coming from a fairly male dominated country, I always get shocked by how men would behave when no one is watching...
If you are shocked then you are not paying attention They have always been degenerate.
are women smarter than men?
No@@fatalisth
@@fatalisthno. Not comparable.
@@fatalisthI also love the simple fact that you're questioning you know like you're just wondering just like anybody else and then you have all these f****** women denying what exactly? The simple fact that you have an opinion lol ours at the simple fact that they know they're in the wrong they're f****** liars
I'm suddenly remembering my mom's friend, an El Salvadorean woman who had American kids but she herself was waiting for citizenship. It looked like she might get rejected so she told my mom in confidence that she'd kill herself if she gets denied, so she won't be forced to go back and so her sons wouldn't have to worry about her. Thank god she was granted citizenship
🙏🏽
Yikes sounds like she needs some mental health help not citizenship
@@joycem6250Assumptions will have you offended by everything. This person just remembered a story due to this story, where is the wrong in that? These stories may not be yours but it’s a reality for many women around the world. What this video has done is give courage to others. It is helping someone somewhere. Not everything said is in malice but if you see malicious intent in everything? It might be time to look within.
@@joycem6250 I get what you are saying and happy that your country is safer now. However, yes it does give hope to many people around the world from abused backgrounds. This particular video is showing a woman coming forward to tell her story and the woman above responded because she had a story that was related to the video we both just both watched. It may be an untruth for you but a truth for others. Someone seeing someone they think is speaking up for what is right, does tend to have that affect on people in difficult situations. Assuming? No dear. I saw a story and I can see how someone might see hope in it. And if you talked to people from other countries that have escaped terrible situations, you will find that seeing something like this gives them courage. Take a minute to volunteer at a battered woman shelter and see what you find. You have a one sided point of view, such that someone finding something relatable in a story offends you. Again, look inward.
@@joycem6250 In addition, this video shows that they interviewed a woman that feared for her life to point her face was blurred out. Did you know the woman interviewed personally? You can educate people about the happenings of your country yes, but to go off on someone who is simply sharing their story is not it. That is misfired frustration.
Listening to that man talk about beating and almost killing the mother of his child was absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking. I’m shocked at how easily he talked about it. How little he seemed to care. I can’t wrap my head around it 😞💔
and the fact that she was 15??? like what
I felt as though he didn't have as much sympathy for her as he claimed to have. 15 is wild
Growing up without the ability to feel. Made sociopaths
It is heartbreaking. It's awful and disgusting. It happens everywhere too. That domestic violence isn't uncommon anywhere unfortunately. It happens all over the world including the US. The entire world needs to make a change.
It’s a cultural thing and their culture finds that tolerable and acceptable no different than a sensible civilized person would find that abhorrent. They find it perfectly normal says how they’re raised that’s what their values instill.
Maybe try hiding this woman's identity better. More blurring
Apparently when they show faces on the news, it prevents the criminals from acting because it will be easier for them to tracked down
@@loveinthematrix video from 2016, the gangsters in this video and another 75,000 are already in prison, nobody is going to do anything to these women anymore.
@joycem6250 there are still men who hate women that are out on the streets
The woman wants to be anonymous but you showed off a lot a blurred effect and not showing the face doesn’t do much also you showed her kid? Why show their face? I know this is a re upload but I haven’t seen it before and this just struck me as weird.
They literally got someone killed the following week like this once. Definitely never doing an interview for anyone on something fucked up
They blurred the man who beats his underaged wife’s face better than hers. Do better vice smh
I thought the same thing. People risk their lives to talk to you and you can't do the simplest thing like hide her identity
they showed her baby, her bracelet, key identifiers. This is not anonymous.!
My exact thoughts. Pissed me the hell off.
This world looks more like hell than hell.
Yeah, it makes me wonder more and more why there is a hell. This world can be bad enough.
things kinda changed this vid is from 2016
@@Lui34779 I hope things have changed somewhat. 8 years isn't that long w/ these kind of problems though.
Hell is Eternal torture in fire and gnashing of teeth sooo no
@@saintejeannedarc9460 it has changed, those gangsters are now in prison, 75,000 gangsters are paying for their crimes and we can finally live a normal life now that they're no longer harming anyone.
Hold on, a 15 year old wife??
18 being the age of consent is an anthropologically recent phenomenon based on linear numerical time. It is an idea spread via colonialism and cultural oppression of indigenous ways of life inherently based on the idea that Anglo-Saxons are morally and ethically superior to “savages.” Imposing a strict and arbitrary number on people who lived otherwise for thousands of years is racist oppression. But the left won’t tell you this.
and she has a child... prob 12 when they started 'dating'
Still legal in many US states. Thought it wasn't, but found out a few mos ago it is. Check it on Google.
I was looking for this comment
not wife, mother of his child.
It's irresponsible to put the baby in this video and you barely blurred his mother. WTF?
Wow, the men in that bar. Good lord, it is entrenched in the culture. This is one of those rare cases in my opinion where raising awareness will make a real change
My face nearly fell apart every time they spoke! Like wdym women make you want to beat them because they like it?!?!
The fact that they believe machismo comes from women because women “let it happen to them” (abuse) is crazy, what’s crazier is the older man saying some women like the abuse. Right, women like being killed….i get BDSM but I have a strong feeling the femicide in El Salvador right by now isn’t from BDSM situations gone wrong…
I dont think so.
It won't. We need to keep certain people out of the States to preserve our own culture.
That’s what I keep saying this is their culture. These are their values. This is what they’re all about. That’s why it is perpetuated. That’s why it is tolerated. That’s why it’s accepted because it’s part of their culture. It’s perfectly fine to them. It’s no problem. That’s the problem that they need to solve. It’s not a criminal problem. It’s a cultural problem, this isn’t a one off
I will never understand femicide or infanticide,pedophilia
Old video from 2016, new presdient changed it all
Me neither, fortunately this gangsters are in prison now.
well you should get to understand it.
I just found out they put women in jail for having miscarriages a LOT in El Salvador, even in some situations where the woman called 911 for help. I read a news story about it and the irony was every woman who went to jail was already a mother and when she went to jail for "unaliving her child" her children were left without a mother to raise them and the families/father would have to scramble for help. For some they were in jail for so long it permanently ruined their relationship with their actual children. If you care about kids, why are you taking their mothers away? This is still going on even under Bukele.
yes. the woke will show up for Brittany Watts, but want to import more misogyny at the same time.
It's going on in Ohio.
Happens in Texas too
Bukele is a neo con so i suppose he might be negative to legalise abortion.
So a woman who endures the tragedy of having a miscarriage is treated like a criminal who deliberately killed her baby?! What an outrage; need to find out more about this.
the way these men speak so highly about their horrendous actions is mind boggling. are they not processing THE WORDS coming out of their mouths? so despicable and disgusting. more justice and protection for these women!!!
This video is from 2016, this was why we sent those 75,000 gangsters to prison last year, they were horrible people.
Femicides and homicides are different - El Salvador still has one of the highest femicide rates in the world. Vice has been airing episodes from this series for weeks now, it's not an attack on El Salvador. Edit: Globally, femicides are overwhelmingly perpetuated by male family members - that includes members of the police force, public servants, and other 'ordinary' men who aren't in gangs. Within the first 5 minutes of the video they state "it's easy to assume these are tragic casualties of gang warfare" and then go on to explain how that's not the case. They later say "femicide in el salvador is not just a phenomenon of gang warfare." I'm tired of people's comments lol.
@@Trescountnice try
very old propaganda video, things are way different now,
funny how the people saying how different it is are all guys. where are the women to tell us things are different? oh that's right.💀💀💀💀@@LexlutherVII
@@Dogtubee🤦♂️ you do realize this video is eight years old!
@@Dogtubee This is from 2016. Things are a lot better now because of the new president cracking down on crime.
I remember first seeing Vice cover War Kidnap "Brides" in Africa. Since then, I've watched them report on violence against women EVERYWHERE in the world. I can see how someone might connect this story to some agenda, but that would be missing the point. This violence against women isn't isolated to any specific place on the map, or just a symptom of any specific culture... It's happening everywhere, everyday.
When a culture is patriarchal, this tends to happen frequently.
@@goldenlordofnightmares True
Maybe if we all just learned to communicate better this wouldn’t be a problem
Thank you.
Hope God helps them🙏
Shoutout to the men that actually care and protect woman and childrens
That's why we Salvadorans love our police officers and military, they got rid of these horrible people and we can now FINALLY live in peace.
@@joycem6250My mother's from mexico and my father's from El salvador. I was born in the US. I don't know what the world goes through. It surprises me when I see online. I've never experienced this first hand. And I hope no one ever goes through this again
@@joycem6250your president locked up 75-76k people who could of been innocent.. it’s very flawed. We will see how your country does in years to come. Hoping and praying for the best.. the violence is beyond crazy over there.
It’s rare nowadays
the bar is in hell if this needs a "shoutout".
Its normal for a real man to have an Ego, but the man stops being a real man when he harms a female just because he can. He then becomes a coward. I pray for these women; this is very heartbreaking.
Exactly! I love masculine men. My husband & my father are both what they call a Man’s Man! Our son is the same. But.. A real man, in all his masculinity protects women! Admires women! Adores women! Provides for their women. He doesn’t hurt her in any way shape or form.
@@coffeecrimegal5968😂😂😂😂😂 no they aren't real men that's why you will have types in this vid as neighbors soon😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Amazonsucks-ky9vf You clearly don’t know what a real man is then…. It’s ok most today don’t. They accept Soy Boys as “men” today.. 😂 Good luck with them… 😂
@@Amazonsucks-ky9vf You clearly don’t know what a real man is…. 😂 It’s ok most today don’t! They think Soy Boys are men! 😂 Good Luck With Them… 😂🤣
@@Amazonsucks-ky9vf Aww I’m sorry! Soy Boy?
This is horrible 😢😢😢 No woman should live in a fear for her life just because of her gender. Come on fellow men, I think we collectively decided against this in the 20th century
Violence against anyone regardless of thier gender is horrible, and no I am not dismissing violence against women. No life is more valuable than the other, men also need protection especially young boys and elderly men . My point is every life is valuable.
idk why you feel the need to take away from the original point of us needing to protect women, violence being bad regardless of gender is very obvious, you are adding nothing to the convo tbh @@ChrisCap732
@@ChrisCap732Yes, you are dismissing violence against women with this "all live matter" BS. This video is about WOMEN, so get it together.
It will never getting better...it will get pathetic day by day
@ky9933 How dare you say such thing. You most be one selfish radical left wing feminist
When she said Ah yessss I felt that in my soul 😢may God give these families comfort
I actually cut it off at that point. Couldn't watch anymore 😢
Yes, that was our reality in 2016, fortunately we were able to send 75,000 of those gangsters to prison last year. Things are totally different now.
Lord. I am praying for ALL women ALL over the world especially in these countries like El Salvador, India and Africa. Give Women JUSTICE from the hands of these beasts! Hear their cries in the land!😭
I agree with what you said. Africa isn't a country btw
Africa is an actual continent with 54 countries? Women are victimized here but such broad generalisations aren't really helpful to anyone.
The government gave us justice already, they sent 75,000 of these horrible gangsters to prison last year, we don't live like how it shows in this video from 2016 anymore, we can finally live in peace ❤
Name two countries and one continent?
@Tajmaj I live here? Are you giving me a quiz? lol.
I was about to say. This is not El Salvador now. This video is from 2016. The current president has pretty much cleaned up the streets and crime is at the lowest it’s been in decades!
I dont believe it
@@Kit-qr5kethey go watch something else. Hating ass
Yeah. They lowered gang violence by initiating state sponsored violence. How lovely.
@@Kit-qr5keme either
@@Kit-qr5ketry doing research, vice news loves to spread propaganda
“Because I don’t know, I think I still love her.” Bull.
These same men get angry when their women marry foreigners... WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? The way these men take these women for granted as well. Not a lot of traditional women out there and they don't deserve to be abused/mistreated. I now understand why these women online date to get out of there.
Never underestimate evil. Evil is as bad as you can imagine, and then some.
That's why sending 75,000 gangsters to prison was our priority, you can see in this video from 2016 how horrible it was to live under their control. Things are totally different now after those monsters are paying for their crimes.
The pain in her voice when she said “ay si” broke my heart
My mom has told me about machismo growing up in Central America. A few of her friends died at the hands of machistas. One of the reasons she moved to the U.S. in the 80s.
My family left El Salvador nearly 50 years ago. I recently returned and thank God, the President Bukele has transformed the country in such a way that we don't see this level of violence any more.
Keep in mind this aired in 2016 and the country is A LOT safer now. I’m actually really proud of how far El Salvador has come. This is my dad’s country and he expresses to me all the time how he is excited to go visit now.
Your father is going to love it. My Dad has gone several times since Bukele has come into the office. My dad almost tears up at how much the country has changed. A park that he was robbed in when he was younger has completely changed. People can walk outside at night without fear. People are laughing and living their life. Kids in highschool are learning about computers and bitcoin mining. God bless Bukele.
Bs
@noirefit5954 is not bs, I been to el salvador last year. My brother just went few weeks ago. Coulp of my relatives went there for Christmas.
This is why many women from El Salvador can get asylum in America!!This is why I’m a feminist and a womanist because I understand the suffering of girls and women.The president in El Salvador is doing a great job!!
You understand it because it exist in your culture as well.
@@user-xi6zb1bc2j Yes it exists in every culture!
@@IAMHERE486 no it doesnt some cultures a too wealthy to mistreat woman
@@user-xi6zb1bc2j This is untrue and it happens in every culture and right here in America.It’s just worse in some third world countries!
@@IAMHERE486 this is true for humanist...what's
i love my wiife.. i"ll never hurt her.. she is the queen of the house.. fucking shame on this men!!!!
❤❤❤
Video from 2016, those gang members are already behind bars, 75,000 of them, we Salvadorans can finally live in peace.
@@joycem6250not the women
@@xndrxx0 I'm a women, femicides unrelated to gangsters are around 40 per year, murders due to gangs are 6,000 a year, it has helped, most women died due to gang violence than femicides. 120,000 were killed by gangs between 1990-2023, femicides don't even compare to that, be a little more respectful and stop talking bs, now without the gangsters we can work on femicides, but don't even pretend the current situation haven't improved.
Why would you guys not show the mom's face but showed her child's face???
Video from 2016, it doesn't matter anymore because those gangsters (75,000 of them) were sent to prison last year.
@@joycem6250 oh, ok, thanks for the reply
El Salvador literally is the safest country in the Americas now. Bukele locked up anyone who could have potentially been in gangs, the statistic about El Salvador being the highest homicide rate in the world is not true anymore
This is disgusting 🤮… prayers for the women who have to endure this horrific abuse.
Had to, those guys and their forced marriages of children are already behind bards, 75,000 gangsters out.
*Had, this video is from 2016, before the crackdown on gangs, 75,000 of those motherf are in prison now.
It doesn't matter if this was from ten years ago or twenty. Learning world history and how it relates to modern issues is important! We can fix our problems when we acknowledge our past.
Thank you.
Yes but it's irresponsible to not say that those guys are behind bars now when you publish a video like this one.
Disagree
Those animals from the bar, I'm bristling with rage!!! The young one who witnessed hos father telling his mother to "screw him" to "earn the money" and how he blamed his mother was just sickening!
That's why we hate the gangsters so much, you can see in this video from 2016 how horrible it was for us to live under their control, fortunately we sent 75,000 of those gangsters to prison and things have totally changed.
So do something
@@siimkask14 I can begin by telling you to SPEAK WHEN SPOKEN TO!
Sad children are stuck in this situation
Not anymore, this video if from 2016, we sent all those 75,000 gangsters to prison, their mutherf culture is dead now, we Salvadorans can finally live in peace.
I hate it when guys are like "she didn't leave so she must like it" like..... No... That's not it..... It's scary
My daughter visited El Salvador a couple of years back! Her boyfriend & his family are from there and they still have family there! I can’t say I wasn’t scared to let her go! Her father & I even told her boyfriend if anything happens to her we’re holding him personally responsible and to not bother coming back!! His family lives in the mountains and she wasn’t allowed to leave the family compound without at least three male escorts! Even with all that, we were happy to allow her the experience to travel to another country and she was thankfully well protected & taken care of! She also said that the El Salvador is absolutely beautiful! And from her photos she wasn’t lying.. I’ll pray for them.. 🙏🏽 💙 El Salvador 🇸🇻
Anyone who defends that this aired 8 years ago so it’s old. No feminism can ever achieve that it would solve women’s problem in such a short period of time. Vice clearly said in the description that it aired in 2016 so I get the context here. What makes me irked is that despite the very vivid, graphic griefs in the video some people are hastily putting up the defensive attitude, mocking the reporters who must have gone through hell with the women. Sad.
Because El Salvador has come a long way from violence like this. This makes it seem like this is still the norm in El Salvador when it’s not
How has women's rights fared in El Salvador under the Nayib Bukele Administration?
@@Tt-tt9myit should still be aired, doesn’t matter if it’s not the norm it shouldn’t happening at all so we airing it!!!
@@greenvans7So basically it's a history, not a reality anymore right
@@hananokuni2580A lot of gang members are now in prison so that probably cut down the femicide rate.
Why is Vice getting this out now? They should prefix this video at the start it was filmed and edited in 2016. Im not from El Salvador but I hear its way different now. Posting this without context when it was made at the start gives a bad view for the country.
Take a wild guess why
Election year!
Vice fired all its journalists last week. Now it’s just the executives/businessmen making the decisions
Still no videos about the 7 Oct invasion or the war it started.
Beacus, vice news is going bankrupt, and this is them trying to quickly recycle old stuff for new views .no joke
I feel bad for the people and kids who growing up without any safe environtment for them.
This is so sad to see I'm grateful as a female I live in the US. rest in peace to all the victims
It's coming here with Biden's open border policy. So don't get too comfortable
@@hellomadam8021illegal immigration has been a problem under both republicans and democrats. There are plenty of countries in the world with tight immigration policies so it is not a really difficult issue to solve for. The reason why the USA is not doing more is because of money. The cheap labor makes a lot of businesses more profitable. Follow the money and you will find the root cause of most government problems.
@@hellomadam8021so scary. wokies can't get it through their heads that some cultures are MUCH better than others.
As a female in the US, I am sickened when I see women's rights being eroded by Republicans
It's here independent of 'the border'. Ohio. Texas. Alabama. Oklahoma. Americans bringing this on American women.
This was hard to watch. I hope change happens soon. These men needs to address the hurt they’re dealing with inside thats where all that anger stems from and the damn atmosphere encourages it is really disgusting
This is from 2016. Things are a lot better now because of the new president cracking down on crime.
It has. This was aired 2016.
@@OLDMANWAFFLESlol doubtful. Theyre all corrupt
@@OLDMANWAFFLES it’s not better lmao take it from a Salvadoran himself
Those "men" are vicious narcissistic psychopaths/sociopaths. They don't give a flying flea about your supercilious faux psychobabble. Grow up.
It’s extremely devastating that many women in different parts of the world have been harmed, abused and attacked in the most unspeakable ways.
You guys should have added that this is from years ago. President Bukele has managed to bring back a sense of safety to his country so far.
THANK YOU. us female is literally the most oppressed gender out of all two.
BS
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn motherless behavior
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn You click on a video that thoroughly describes why women can slip into further danger than men but your unwise self still says "BS". Do better, stop shaming your mother.
@@homeland1128no it’s fatherless behavior. Males are more likely to abandon their kids because they are selfish and useless
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7ynWhat are you, a male or something?
Just to make things clear, this is Not El Salvador anymore. I moved 3 years ago doing Missionary work and a lot has changed. Gangs are no Longer harassing females or people period. They are locked up, please don’t use this and make it seem like we’re still suffering through this. I pray and hope other countries like Honduras or Guatemala can change like our country has since March 2022!!. We can walk freely now and enjoy what this country has families can be free and we’re no longer afraid. We keep praying for other countries that find themselves in this situation and only getting worst. Blessings.
I am Salvadoran and it’s sad the gangs still pretty much run stuff etc. Really unfortunate and sad I am proud to be a free Salvadoran woman
I thought things were much better?
Todavía? La verdad soy muy ignorante del tema (soy de México) pero pensé que las cosas habían dado un giro enorme y ya no era tan peligroso.
Things are much better. I just spent a month there
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7ynit has gotten better based from my mom & her family telling me since they’ve been visiting the country more often
Things have gotten a lot better now for the past couple years! El Salvador now is one of the safest countries.
That "ay sii" got me... Que trauma
Coming from a Salvadorian background, I can confirm that El Savlador has changed, this was 2016. Our president has manage to keep the streets clean of violence and has put alot of gangs in jail. It is actually safer now than before.
SO SAD AND DOESN'T MAKE SINCE US MEN WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASNT FOR A WOMEN. THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY!!! 😠 😡 😔 😟 🙁 😥 ❤️🙏
Women in Europe and whites countries have literally ruined the whole of Europe voting for massmigration since they got the right to vote
This is from 2016. Things are a lot better now because of the new president cracking down on crime.
Maybe they’re mad at women for bringing them here.
And they wouldn’t be here without us. Don’t forget you need sperm to inseminate the egg let’s not act like everything begins with them.
@@shottakush8404 everything does begin with the female, the Y chromosome you have came from the X chromosome.
The most dangerous place to be for a women : Me : 🌏
Just as a reminder this is no longer an issue in El Salvador, this episode is from 2016.
This episode of Woman first aired on VICE TV in 2016.
Yes, it states this in the description. ❤️
Thank you I've seen the comments now
No, no, but can someone PLEASE explain _why_ these documentaries are released like 10, 15 years after they are filmed?? This comment is the only comment i've read that points out these release delays. i've asked this question countless times on multiple documentaries that also have only been filmed like 10 years ago and only recently released, and _no_ one replies. if its not like they only release it to be watched for the public to watch it for free after they release it on PAID platforms like netflix, i really really don't understand why they want to want freaking 10 years to release it. either people for some bizzare reason think releasing documentaries 10-20 yrs to the public after filming it is _normal_ , or my comments havent actually been posted. idk. this world is weird i swear.
@@dbuc4671 1) 2016 was not 10, 15, or 20 years ago. 2) You can post comments, but you're not owed an answer. 3) There is no harm in re-releasing documentaries a few years later, especially when the description states when the documentary was filmed.
@@amyparker9816 1) I'm only talking about this specific one. there are tons of documentaries out there, released only recently, that were filmed in the 2000s and 2010s. i wouldnt ask a question like this if this documentary was the ONLY one I found that was this old. obviously i would have to have seen like at least 5 or 10 or more that are filmed such a long time ago, to begin to really wonder and question and wanna know why they do it. 2) I'm not expecting _anyone_ to answer me, nor does anyone _owe_ me anyone, but it would be nice to have some answers. Similar to how it would be _nice_ to have a seat on a full bus, but you aren't _expecting_ anyone to give one up for u. 3) answered it, i never knew they actually repost past videos.
El salvador, Bolivia Columbia , Venezuela r equally vulnerable.many countries worldwide are not safe where various types of crime r rampant. We r more uncivilized than bafore.
Recently there was a man from Chile who was interested in dating me, an American woman. On our second date he told me his aunt was shot by her husband at the time because he 'thought' she cheated. She actually didn't cheat nor had an affair. Luckily, she survived the assault but was paralyzed from the waist down. According to this Latino man his aunt was extremely beautiful and still was even after the assault. It's about control and the Catholic church brainwashed those people. This Latino guy would not respect my set boundaries like calling me past a certain time or calling and not leaving a message when I requested he not. I told him I go to bed at a time during the week I found it odd that he would lie about little things. When we talked he would say immature things like I called because you asked me to call you or say he couldn't be calling me all the time.. I never asked him to call me actually. I only went on two dates but there were lots of red flags. Western women have a lot of individual Rights, individual Freedoms, and have the Right to pursue our own definition of Happiness especially in the Scandinavian Nordic countries. These Freedoms should NEVER be taken for granted, EVER! I will say women who come to The West from these patriarchal countries can be worse than the males sometimes and actually uphold such oppressive regimes like #HonorCode #ArrangedMarriages #CasteSystem #KafalaSystem #Femincide #PassiveAggressive
Honduras as well
I'm surprised this wasn't in Honduras, because that's happening a lot alot over there @@christinabrown6442
BOLIVIA!!! really why include my country its not even that bad as the title claims, also the video is 8 years old ago
At least read the description, this was a video from 2016, before we sent 75,000 gangsters to prison. Things are safe now, this motherf are not able to harm us anymore.
This is sick and heartbreaking
We all came from a woman!! This is the respect and thanks they get from bringing them into the world!...SMH😢
I understand your argument and everyone should be respected I agree but that isn’t a good argument it’s not like ppl were asked to be born
It's so sad to see this. The men in the bar, omg, their opinions are hard to listen. Blaming the victims all time.
Can you post an update after all the changes made?
This was so difficult to watch. Thank you for doing this story. Keep spreading the awareness.
I wish to be able to do this! Thank you so much vice and to everyone involved in these videos! I can only imagine how nervous and scared they must have been to be there
Before Bukele not one reporter would show up.
They did and ended up dead
@@RolandinBroward Who was it
Now, Bukele made the country boring and very safe, They don't want to make videos about El Salvador 😂
@@LexlutherVII Yeah facts, El Salvador used to be then Central American wild west with cool gangs and that would put you on the edge of your seat, now it’s just another normal and boring country. Shame.
This video is from 2016. Bukele has changed El Salvador for the better.
It was filmed in 2016, why did not you put that on the title man 😡
God bless this incredible strong interviewer. How scary.
Shocking.....absolutely shocking 💔 Thank you for being brave enough to show the World what is happening to these poor women.
Video from 2016, those 75,000 gangsters are in prison now, this ISN'T our reality anymore.
Thank you for this video.
Being Salvadoran, I can tell you El Salvador is no longer what is depicted in this old documentary. VICE should produce a new documentary of El Salvador.
How is it now?
@@Carpediem1230we have become the safest country in the whole of the American CONTINENT, even before Canada, those 75,000 gangsters are behind bars already, we can finally live in peace.
What a disgusting culture.
That's gang culture for you, it was disgusting.
this video is from 2016 its different now
Thanks to Bukele, now in March 2024 El Salvador is the safest country in Latin America. El Salvidor is now competing with Canada to be the safest in all Americas, with projected year-end homicide rates between 1.8 and 2.5 per 100000.
This video says otherwise
@@PennyMsElite This video is from 2016. Read the description!
@@pazuzuxx oh
Interesting, & good to hear; may I inquire as to how was it done??
@@rubyred6954They put a man the media labels a “right-wing extremist” in charge of the country. He jailed criminals and invited intelligent young white men from the west to help run his government. No different from what Pinochet did to save Chile.
RIP to all innocent women and men who have been killed 😢
My Dad is from Salvador he would always tell me and my brothers stories of how it was back then when he was small. What him and my grandpa would find in the jungles, what they saw in the streets.
Didn’t their homicide rate get to be one of the lowest in the world?
Maybe the killers moved to America
@@PennyMsElite or or hear met out, they traded it to have one of the highest incarceration rate in the world
This episode is from 2017. Theyre reuploading because vice went bankrupt
Fake news
@@SapBoy365the description says when this is from 🙄
El Salvador just finished building Cecot (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism), the largest prison in Latin America to try and handle gangs in El Salvador. It's been called the "mega prison". If there's ever a total breakout as just happened in Haiti, either the military will have to fully mobilize or the count will be overrun. With all the gangs having massive members in the US, it will be an international threat.
It won't stop the gangs they will cintinue to run things in the country from one city to another
im hearing that a lot of sa countries are dumping their prison populations --- which are headed straight for the north continent
Yep! Kiss goodbye the US you knew before....
"If it wasn't for sex, men and women would've killed each other off long ago." -- G.B. Shaw, Irish playwright.
I mean it wouldve been mainly men doing the killing lets be real here. We are so much above women in their ability its extremely unfair, which is why it is considered a mans responsibility to protect women. Because we can.
I'm Salvadoran and this I never knew... it's heart breaking... God please protect my people. In your name I pray. AMEN AMEN AMEN 🙏🏽 🙌🏽 👏🏽 ❤️
How did you not know that the gangs did this? This is why we sent those 75,000 gangsters to prison in 2023.
This is pitiful, it breaks my heart. Much love from Texas
Video from 2016
@@joycem6250 Still breaks my heart
@@pjm8433 I know, is horrible to have to remember this kind of things, at least I don't think I can forget
Can we get a Vice documentary on how Vice executives got paid millions for crashing the company into the ground and laying off everyone?
The female journalist interviewing these men with understanding and calmness just goes to show how resilent women are.
Wow.This was chilling. Bless those mothers & the woman who are trying to make progress in law enforcement & in the political realm. Thanks for shedding light on this.
For something that happened before the new regime? Do you understand that all those monsters are behind bars now, right?
This video is from 2016, these 75,000 gangsters are in prison now, we can finally live in peace.
@@joycem6250 Hi 👋🏾Oh like the President Bukele & law enforcement? How are things going there? I have met people from Mexico, PR, & Guatemala but I personally haven't spoken w/any one from El Salvador so my knowledge of current events there are very limited. Are the femicide rates substantially lower now? Were the 75,000 gangsters all apprehended by law enforcement during Bukle since he's been in office. Do women have better health/life expectancy now or feel more comfortable reaching out to police officers there, since that was one of the things this documentary mentioned about more women officers to help certain cases. Is it safer for travel for even U.S citizens or what? Any responses to these q's would be appreciated.🙌🏾
Our little town here in Texas is now full of men from el Salvador...lovely!! Thanks for the warning!
If they're gangsters report them to the Salvadoran Embassy, they can be sent back home to prison for gang affiliations. This behavior is gang related, not Salvadoran culture.
I feel like half male population of this country should be arrested. And that's crazy, because for this kind of actions you would have been already in jail in another country.
Well, prob 10-15% were since the recent crakcdown on gangs, lol. This was filmed in 2016
Those GANGSTERS are already in prison, 75,000 of them in fact, they represent 1% of the population though, not even close to your assumed 50%.
@@dyawr 1% in fact.
@@joycem6250 Aha, ok. So it would be 2% of the male population, assuming it's 50-50% males and females.
@@joycem6250 I was calculating based on the fact that I heard 5% of El Salvador's population is in prison, and I assume 95% are men.
Why do you all constantly do such a terrible job hiding people's identity? WTF! It's almost like you want people to be found out so you can add more drama to your stories.
(This video was released in 2016) For all those wondering, the homicide rate in El Salvador has dropped significantly, becoming one of the least homicides in the entire world due to the new president. There isn’t any new statistic reports on femicide but has most likely significantly decreased due to tens of thousands of gang members being incarcerated
Why is this being aired again now if this was aired back in 2016? 🤔
that's what I'm thinking 🤡
bc its still happening
@@twitterienne3679 Yes, because machismo is rooted in the culture. But the gang violence is close to non existent now. If most people don't read the description they're just gonna assume that the gangs are continuing to terrorize people.
Someone wants to mislead the scroller, and get a fear reaction from the uninformed❤
@@timebot000 that's what I'm saying 😭
8:19 so I totally get her saying when she was on a gang she felt strong and like she had a family, but if she’s in a gang abd she knows these things are happening to other women in the other gangs when they’re captured, wouldn’t she be scared of those things happening to her?
To anyone who is worried rightow... this video was filmed back in 2016, this film is about 7 or 8 years old. Nowadays el salvador is a much safer country thanks to bukele... i have friends over there they say it's the first time in their life they can breathe calmly ( of course never letting their guard down). My heart goes to all of these victims and their families.
How much does any one want to bet that some of these guys are in the states right now in a migrant shelter, waiting to bring their reign of terror on any woman unlucky enough to cross their path?
EXACTLY!!!
Fact.
Most definitely!
Source: i got it out of my a**
Wish the world wasn't so violent and cruel. All this hate and misogyny is an endless vicious cycle. :(
Yeah, but in America it’s the other way around misandry is at an all-time high
@@shottakush8404this is about women not men
@@shottakush8404 i wonder why🧐🧐🧐
@@zucchinikindaslayedtwo wrong doesn't make right. 😂😂
I hope things have changed with the new regime. El Salvador was a country of lawlessness. A society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable. This treatment of women has no excuse- machismo be damned.
This was gang culture, the video is from 2016, we sent 75,000 of them to prison in 2023, things have changed drastically.
My mom, always, says that we women should be valued, because we are the ones that give life.
your mother is wise
Im from El Salvador.. All of that gang stuff isn’t happening anymore. And women aren’t being mass murdered.
Isn't it Honduras?
@@sway_9803 it was El Salvador in 2016 before the crackdown
Honestly you guys always do a crappy job at keeping the people in danger anonymous, hope you can actually take the video down and reupload it only after fixing the filter. Educating people about this important but it could easily be used to hurt them in the wrong hands
This episode aired in 2016. I’d like an update video on the situation with the new president
This ^ 2015-2020 was incredibly dangerous for Salvadoran women especially
@@tockalaluz yes, it was very stressful, they could hurt you at any time and nobody would be able to do anything.
@@tockalaluz"women" technically no. you know it not just women. Children, men , elderly there all getting murder bc of the gang members.
Incredible how the country has turned 180 in less than a decade .